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East Cambridgeshire Schools’ Art Exhibition 2024 Award Winners Announced

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The annual East Cambridgeshire Schools’ Art Exhibition is now open at Babylon Gallery. On Wednesday 7th February Babylon ARTS held a prize giving ceremony, in which the winners were announced, with prizes awarded that were generously funded by Tindalls Ltd. Ely Hereward Rotary Club and Anglia Ruskin University. Babylon ARTS is hosting the East Cambridgeshire …

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Massive cash boost keeps Lantern kids at cutting edge of technology

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Kids at The Lantern Community Primary School are celebrating a major tech upgrade at their school, thanks to a £18,000 cash boost. Sixteen iPads, 30 laptops and an interactive classroom board have now been delivered to the Ely primary school, which will help children stay on the cutting edge of technology. Digital leaders, made up …

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MP Lucy Frazer announces "additional £3.1 million" for SE Cambs schools

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School funding will remain at the top of Lucy Frazer’s agenda, the MP promises Spotted in Ely, announcing “an additional £3.1 million” for South East Cambridgeshire’s schools. This week Ms Frazer said that once the government’s new National Funding Formula was fully implemented, primary and secondary schools across her constituency would get a funding boost …

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East Cambs schools face further staff losses and funding cuts, unions warn

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Cash strapped schools across East Cambridgeshire face a funding crisis, with all of the district’s colleges set to have their budgets slashed and teaching staff reduced in the next four years, unions warn. Figures released today predict that in real terms 88 per cent of schools throughout England face crippling budget cuts by 2020, with …

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Not Made Up Your Mind Yet? All 3 candidates for SE Cambs speak to Spotted in Ely

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  Keen Spotted in Ely follower Stephen Germaney (thanks Stephen for your hard work) collected lots of questions to ask the 3 local candidates, Lucy Frazer (Conservative), Lucy Nethsinga (Liberal Democrat) and Huw Jones (Labour) and all agreed to answer them. Questions range from schools to Europe and everything in between. We even get a joke …

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Parents and teachers protest school cuts at "Fair Funding" picnic

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Parents and teachers alike have voiced their anger and concern about cuts to school budgets during a picnic at an Ely primary school this afternoon. The Lantern Community Primary School was among numerous schools and colleges nationwide to host “Fair Funding Picnics” today, organised by the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the country’s biggest teaching …

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Ely College Students learn about healthy choices during first PLEDGES day

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Ely College students took time out from their regular studies last week to focus on their health instead, as part of their first ever PLEDGES and Futures Day. PLEDGES are a set of challenges that students are expected to complete during the course of their time at the college. By completing certain sets of challenges, …

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East Cambs schools face funding crisis, with huge cuts to budgets and staff by 2020, unions warn

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East Cambridgeshire’s schools, already some of the poorest funded in the country, will lose teachers and suffer a funding crisis unless they receive a major cash boost, the country’s biggest teachers’ unions warn. Cambridgeshire’s schools already receive £600 less per pupil than the English average, with £4200 a year being spent per pupil – some …

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Students taught to stay safe

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Pupils from primary schools across East Cambridgeshire recently visited Ely Fire Station to learn about staying safe at home and outside. Eight different workshops were set up, during the week long event, covering road safety, the internet, railways, animal safety, water awareness, fire safety, buying of safe goods and antisocial behaviour. The special programme, known …

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Wonderful Dahl-ing! Lantern kids celebrate centenary since Roald Dahl's birth

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There’s never a Dahl moment at The Lantern School in Ely. Actually on Friday, year two students got to experience a whole Dahl day! The children were taking part in celebrations across the country to celebrate 100 years since the birth of legendary children’s writer Roald Dahl, the talent behind Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, …

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Happy Birthday, Roald Dahl!

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What do Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Tales of the Unexpected have in common? They were all penned by Roald Dahl. Schools across Cambridgeshire have been taking part in celebrations to mark the much loved author’s centenary this week. Children at Spring Meadows School and The King’s School in Ely …

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"Our young people deserve a better deal" – new Ely College principal speaks out on fairer funding blow

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The new principal of Ely College has spoken out about his dismay at discovering that Cambridgeshire’s schools, which receive some of the lowest investment per pupil in the country, will not be getting fairer funding in 2017. Speaking to Spotted in Ely, Richard Spencer said: “In terms of fair funding, my view is simple: I …

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Bad news for Cambs schools – no fairer funding for at least another year

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Cambridgeshire’s schools have received some shocking end-of-term news: despite getting some of the lowest investment per pupil in the country, the government has temporarily put the brakes on fairer funding. As students and teachers prepared for the start of the school summer holidays, Education Secretary Justine Greening announced that plans to bring in fairer funding …

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Children urged to think about plight of refugees in poster contest

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Looking for something creative and thought-provoking to do with the kids this half-term? Children across East Cambridgeshire are invited to consider the meanings of the words “home” and “refuge” in a poster competition aimed at increasing awareness and compassion for Syrians escaping war and persecution. The competition, organised by the Ely Refugee Resettlement Campaign, is …

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Police ask for Youth of Ely to brighten up the local station

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The Police at Ely are calling on all youngsters to help brighten their workplace and make the building a more welcoming place for the public by running a competition to celebrate young local talent. Called “Art Reach 2016” they will be accepting entries in any form that can be wall mounted. There are four categories. Those …

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